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...Ethiopia, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, leader of the ruling Provisional Military Council in Addis Ababa, was directing his anger at Washington. During a government-sponsored press tour (see following story), Mengistu accused the U.S. (falsely) of indirectly supplying arms to Somalia. At week's end an American delegation led by David Aaron, deputy director of the National Security Council, arrived in the Ethiopian capital to urge Mengistu not to burn his remaining bridges with the U.S. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood was in the Ogaden. His report...
...assessing the situation, a U.S. diplomat points out that "not all the results are in yet on the Soviet gamble on the Horn." For one thing, the Ethiopian regime's loyalty to Moscow has yet to be deeply tested. Mengistu is a nationalist above all, and there may be some truth in his claim that he turned to Moscow partly because the U.S. would not sell him weapons. In any case, the Soviets can hardly escape the many reminders of how quickly allegiances can change on the Horn. The Ethiopian soldiers still wear American-supplied uniforms; their weapons, ammunition...
...pressed its drive in the Ogaden, Ethiopia's regime launched another campaign on an entirely new front: world opinion. Having virtually closed the country to foreign newsmen for months, Mengistu's government suddenly invited reporters from Western and East bloc news organizations to come for a ten-day visit. More than 90 correspondents turned up last week for what was billed as a guided look at the war and the Marxist government's revolution at home...
...most imposing arsenal of military equipment that the Soviet Union has assembled anywhere outside the Communist world: $900 million worth of tanks, field guns, rockets, radar, artillery, mortars and missiles. To help with the hardware, and otherwise shore up the sagging Marxist military regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, Moscow has also provided Addis Ababa with a polyglot army of soldiers and technicians. According to Western intelligence reports, the roll includes 1,000 Russians, 3,000 Cubans (of whom 2,000 are believed to have been involved in last week's fighting), 1,000 or so troops from...
That may well be true, but Ethiopia remains dangerously unstable; without the Soviet and Cuban iron grip, the Mengistu regime could fall at any time. In Addis Ababa, as many as 1,000 people have been killed since November in an officially sanctioned campaign of violence that government officials describe as "justifiable terror." Every night members of a counterrevolutionary group of so-called white terrorists are slain in the streets. One day last week a young man lay dead on a sidewalk near the city's busy marketplace; to his chest was pinned a note warning citizens...